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September 2007 | Choice 3
Way Ahead of Their Time
Network: Consistently voted one of the top ten screenplays of all time, and selected for preservation by the U.S. Library of Congress as “culturally significant,” this satirical, 1976 Oscar-winning tour-de-force, released a decade before cable TV’s ascendancy and 20 years before the debut of the Fox News Channel, is a scathing indictment of the media establishment’s march towards “infotainment.” The film spawned the popular phrase “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore.”
Mindwalk: This 1991 film based on Fritjof Capra’s book, The Turning Point, is one extended conversation between three characters: a scientist, a politician and a poet, as they wander around Mont Saint Michel, France. The movie serves as an introduction to systems theory and quantum mechanics, while major environmental, political and social problems, and alternative solutions for them, are discussed. The poet recites “Enigmas” by Pablo Neruda at the end of the movie, concluding the core of the discussion.
1984: The title of Orwell’s bleak dystopian-future classic was derived by taking the year of publication, 1948, and flipping the last two digits. The real 1984 bore little comparison to the perpetual-war, totalitarian, Big Brother surveillance society portrayed in the book, but it seemed all we needed to do was wait another few decades for all of it to come to pass. The book-within-the-book Winston Smith reads in secret, The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, will send chills down your spine, as you recognize in its pages the world in which we live today.
— Charles Shaw
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